pressure confirms its 1st case of the new covert strain it originated in the u.k. but medical chiefs say russia's vaccine is up to the task the shot has now been approved by algeria and palestine. from dismissal to acceptance of several mainstream journalists who were initially skeptical over b.r. now lining up to take the russian jap. donald trump faces a 2nd impeachment just days before leaving office as pro trumpet writers are charged over the storming of the capital. and the festive season brings it no respite for germany which has reported a surge in covert cases with chancellor merkel warning the most difficult phase is

still to come. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us russia has confirmed it's 1st a case of a highly infectious coby that mutation 1st to discovered in the u.k. but health chiefs have given their assurances that the russian vaccine offers full protection against the new strain production of the drug is being ramped up millions of more doses are said to be released within a month earlier told my colleague kevin owen about the latest details. this new strain has crossed its borders and sneaked into russia along with one of the passengers on board of a jet that came back from the u.k. after all it's a british strain now it's important to understand that right now russia has its borders with the u.k.

shut down but that happened back in december when the borders were still open and the world was still learning about this new mutation of the virus but russian officials who are tasked with home batting this coronavirus are saying that the citizens of russia should not really fear it should not fear this new mutation because the existing sputnik the vaccine will be effective they are saying against this strain when it comes to russia and the people the number of people vaccinated moscow is leading the charge here in total in all of russia more than a 1000000 people have been vaccinated if you compare it to any european country that is more in fact it is roughly the same amount of citizens who have been vaccinated if you have germany and spain combined and these are the countries that are leading the european rates of vaccination how's the russian sputnik of a vaccine being welcomed round the rest of the world outside of russia the

situation here is interesting because of course russia was the 1st country to announce that it has a vaccine ready and as anything new as anything 1st it came under scrutiny and well it was it came close to being ridiculed as people all around the world including journalists took it with a pinch of salt and with out of these 3 mass trial completed it sounds like the process hasn't run its course here and there to stop researchers say russia's cutting corners to develop its coronavirus that saying they're still trying to figure out safety and there they've approved it so it was presented as something ridiculous as something outrageous like what russia thinks of itself how. roll out a vaccine so unready so rules so unstudied even now the tables seem to have turned and the same the journalists of the same outlets who were ridiculed the russian vaccine are now getting the jab with many of my fears alleviated another

reason i chose to could not do with the product to russian genetic engineering was more basic it was available russian clinics have not been dogged by the lines or logistical snafu reported to vaccination sites in the united states and other countries so the sheer availability of the vaccine and the lack of side effects reported by patients who received the jab has made it entice enough for the western audience also the lack of cubes and new countries or approving sputnik be to be used on its soil like the 1st country in africa. and more countries are in fact looking into the possibility of becoming producers of sputnik we like germany has shown interest and the latest one is brazil that is looking to produce but need to be on its soil to make it available to all of its population and perhaps south america so we'll see how that fares. palestine has formally approved vaccine for emergency use making it the 1st middle east government to do so that comes

a day after algeria gave it the green light and the russian funded behind sputnik v. says it expects 10 more states to register the drugs end of january was the director general of the public health at the palestinian health ministry explained why they chose the russian shot. we asked for the condition of this with the looks you know this has been sent over is that. it has been interviewed by old leaves in the midst of the so that if you can see and effectiveness and. so the fix for the split works in which was a very good if it is if it's more than 92 percent almost but if the person at the same time the side effects was minimal there's no severe so the 5th has been reported so you just do it before the looks. in order to needlessly the next initiation hoping that you can reach. the books in it 60 to 70 percent of the population that is there the really the coach of the new district going into the

worst institution over. a surge of a covered cases is seen in germany over the festive season with angela merkel warning of the hardest weeks yet to come details for you later in the program. us democrats have moved closer to impeaching donald trump for an unprecedented 2nd time after launching proceedings against the president on monday trump has been accused of inciting his supporters to invade the u.s. capitol during last week's electoral vote count in congress that has prompted house speaker nancy pelosi to brand trump an imminent threat to democracy person turning head of branch is a drain just unhinged dangerous president of the united states he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. the impeachment article brought forward by the democrats charges trump with encouraging an

insurrection at the capitol building endangering the security of state officials and disrupting the peaceful transfer of power a vote is expected on wednesday lawmakers will also vote on a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment under which trump would be suspended from his office that effort was earlier stalled by house republicans and impeachment could have critical consequences for trum future in politics if convicted in a senate trial he could be banned from ever holding office again which would warrant his potential return it to the presidency in 2024 he would also lose the benefits granted to former presidents many republicans want the impeachment effort stopped and have called for common ground with democrats artie's but i've got to have has commentary what did america learn from this this painful these are all full incident.

that they finally realized that things had gone to fought that the left finally hear the right all vice versa when thousands of your countrymen storming the capitol building you don't have to like it but if you don't bother to pause and learn a single thing from it from your citizens storming your capitol building then you're a fool. 4 in 5 democrats believe that those who stormed capitol hill a domestic terrorists if you ask republicans only one in 5 calls them terrorists most call them protesters the fact is millions of those republicans believe the election was rigged and stolen the logical thing to do for the left would be to say hold on your mistaken recently action was fair here's how and here's why but that

isn't their response their response is to try and impeach trump again and stead of finally deescalating the left sees this as an opportunity to crack down on the right to beat them while they're down to settle political scores and to slap away the hand offered in peace we must come together and put this anger and division behind us we must and i'm confident we will have a peaceful and orderly transition of power santa cruz you must accept responsibility for how your craven self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of 4 people yesterday but if you and senator holly must resign probably not the best time to be calling for political blood given how breaux can and hurt the u.s. sees it's as if something has ingrained itself in the american mindset a complete and utter reluctance to compromise and be civil to your own neighbors

and citizens total unwillingness to accept other views opinions and even on race. to. goals were marked storming the capitol what would be no. no no to america's sounds right it does doesn't it they live in the in the same streets and the same towns but they're in different worlds here in their minds this goes beyond political. differences beyond reason it's hate from both sides and predominantly these hates all asleep it's hard to see how it's going to get better unless adds it's a huge change and we can all see that attitudes are changing democrats just won the senate for the 1st statement almost a decade there are too cool control of the federal government why you why would

they start compromising now meanwhile dozens of suspects have been arrested within the u.s. over last week's storming of the capital they face charges including violent entry disorderly conduct and illegal possession of firearms and the f.b.i. is asking the public to help identify the participants. look at this these protesters are inside statuary hall right now you see the statues this is a moment i never saw in my life of my only march of troops supporters storming the entrance to the capitol grounds it's an unprecedented security breach in the capitol at least in my experience it is hard to put into words what exactly we witnessed today because we've got seen this before. f.b.i. washington field office seeking the public's assistance in identifying doe's who made unlawful entry into the u.s. capitol building on january 6th if you witnessed unlawful violent actions contact

the f.b.i. usa today needs your help identifying the people who broke into the u.s. capitol wednesday view the photos and fill out self-will. let's name and shame them off to some amazing work by james railton friends here is his face and i guess his mom's pay attention to the shirts and hats and glasses. never start direct marketing in maryland you've gotten into you to investigate. european leaders have questioned twitter's decision to permanently banned almost

trump in the wake of the capital riots representatives of the german chancellor and the french president both spoke out saying the move by the social network was worrying and it has implications for free speach. so the chancellor considers it problematic because the accounts of the us presidents have now been permanently blocked and you know. silencing them on social networks which have become a form of public space seems to me a complicated massa in the absence of specifically established criteria. the president had 88000000 twitter followers and constantly used the platform twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyer sydney powell and other high profile supporters of the president. as part of the crackdown on the voices tech giants have targeted the alternative platform parlor it is a social network a popular with the political right wing but it has now been forced off the internet

after amazon blocked access to its servers citing a spike in violent content google and apple had already removed the parlor app over similar concerns parlor has called amazon's actions politically motivated to and illegal and is suing the company meanwhile the right leaning users are looking for alternatives. the social network gab is one such option its user base has surged by around 600000 per day since the major tech firms started tightening the screws on trump supporters earlier my colleague nikki erin spoke with journalist and commentator chadwick more about the social media ban. certainly it became a home for people who've been banned off the mainstream internet various. outlets for a long time you know people who are you know we forget that big tech has been silencing and banning people since the 26000 election people that they helped that they thought how to get the president elected so i don't really feel like in that

continent i'm barly to be honest that that's not to say it's not there but you know like all of these are like any social media site like twitter used to be it's free association so you are free to block people you're free to follow people you're somewhat interested in if there are sort of groups out there you're free to not interact with them which is what. your twitter used to be like it's a day put the power in the user instead of the platform deciding deciding who should be heard and who should not be heard and americans are of course deeply worried about this and this is the land that prides itself so much on free speech and on pretty association arnold schwarzenegger has lashed out a doll champ in the wake of the capitol hill riot the hollywood star and former california governor spoke about his childhood and post nazi austria and compared the president's actions to what happened in the run up to world war 2 i grew up in austria and very aware of christine boxed well the night of broken glass whilst it was that they have broken gus right here in the united states president trying to

solve to overturn the results of an election he saw the cool but misleading people with us. it was for misled also the lies. of the short snigger referred there to kristallnacht a wave of attacks on jews across germany and austria in 1938 the name comes from the shattered glass that littered the streets after nazi paramilitary forces raided and vandalized synagogues and jewish owned stores thousands of jews were arrested that night and dozens were killed mary clue coup director of the holocaust and genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that an elegy. unhelpful and say to me holocaust and she's in the process we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift article context it needs and the nuance needs to be. always taken into

consideration and each occasion in each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for many survivors similac today the holocaust is not a memory is not history it's lived experience it's the loss of a family members the torture of the the polling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particular events last week were on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around calling it christiane. still ahead on our ginger national the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan have sat down with russia's president for their 1st head to head meetings since a cease fire signed in november that another story after a short break this is our international.

seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any. get to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to end when you can vote for free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in the election people voted for free money and now it's officially her band franklin it's done it's done it's done.

welcome back this is our g international now germany has tightened its international lockdown after a surgeon cold cases over the festive season our europe correspondent peter all right has more. germany continues to post high numbers of infections with covert 19 and debts associated with it on friday the grim wreck ordered numbers of dead was broken here in germany 1188 deaths confirmed that prompted chancellor angela merkel to give very sobering speech over the weekend and which she called on german citizens to think about their actions and

the impact their actions would have on their fellow citizens. the coming winter weeks are probably the most difficult phase of the pandemic hospitals across the country are working to their limits current infection rates do not even reflect the facts of christmas any years eve ending at a possible surge in a number of key cess and virus mutations are not helping to reduce anxiety well lock down measures they were brought in before christmas and new year were extended well strengthened last week they'll be in place until the end of january they'll be reviewed on the 25th both sits likely that they will be extended even further what that means is all bars and restaurants are close to in-house dining and house guests non-essential retail's closed also things like hay addresses all closed completely as well as schools and kindergartens when it comes to the vaccine now

chancellor angela merkel has promised to ramp up germany's vaccine program in germany as well as many other european nations have been criticized for how slow their vaccine program had been put into place the health minister here in berlin the end spawn it said that he was happy with the way things were progressing that they'd targeted initially those in care homes and then it would be rolled out to the population at large what we've also heard from a government spokesperson is that chancellor angela merkel that spoken with russian president vladimir putin about. the russian sputnik vivax seen being manufactured here in germany because it is generally i cannot report on confidential talks between the federal chancellor and her counterparts but i can say that the chancellor made it clear that she is open to violate to a corporation with russia for the purpose of developing european for abduction capacity for the russian vaccine well in order for the russian vaccine to be

manufactured here in germany it would 1st have to be approved by the european medical agency that hasn't happened as of yet but it does seem that should that happen we could well see that russian vaccine being manufactured here in germany as well as in russia california suffered a record number of covert 900 tallies this week the state has registered 2700000 cases and almost 30000 deaths since the start of the pandemic and it has put a huge strain on frontline medics. prepared 21 years that i've seen more people passed away last week. and the past couple weeks really than i almost hate combined in all of my career as a nurse you just see them die they just die and they they fight dying and it's so sad.

yes i'm angry yes i'm upset but the only thing that we can do is give them the reality of the situation which is this there is no room inside the hospital that we are making tents outside the hospital. the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia have met for the 1st time since signing a russia brokered cease fire that ended more than 6 weeks of deadly hostilities in the car back region now the meeting lasted for almost 4 hours here in moscow hosted by president putin and was followed by

a news conference. she would use new stitcher should get it in the washington this meeting has been extremely important and useful we have signed a joint declaration on the region's development. and is a god in the implementing the agreements outlined in the statement can change the economic outlook of the region and to security over dick initially to you and the like would look at about the nagorno-karabakh conflict is a thing of the past and we should now look to the future we need to solve problems together with our natures. well the fact that said the leaders of russia armenia and azerbaijan have met so face to face here in moscow during this very uneasy time of the coronavirus been damaged certainly speaks volumes about the seriousness of their intents their russian president said after the meeting said that this sides have signed a joint statement on the future development of azerbaijan now the budget and leader all in the homily have said that said the meeting with putin and passion was very

important for the future of the entire region meanwhile his armenian counterpart. and said that there are still many issues on the table including the status of mcgauran a car a block now they disputed nagorno-karabakh territory has seen a major sanction the last few decades between armenia and azerbaijan the latest flare up in tensions took place in september of last year with intense fighting that that saw sense of thousands of people killed on each side. and. it's now been over 2 months that it's been called and quads nagorno-karabakh region bands of bloody mir putin said on monday that as many as 48000 people. i have

already roots are into their homes in and i gorney however he said there is still quite a lot of work to do he also spoke about the russian peacekeepers who are performing their mission there in accordance with the agreement signed with armenia and azerbaijan he said so far they have de mines and cleared hundreds of hex airs of a land from unexploded munitions a you also talked about the fact that hundreds of tons of aid have been delivered from the gordon corera box as well via air via trades and trucks as well now about that agreement that the side says signed russian peacekeepers are in the region and there facilitating the return of the refugees and of course are monitoring for the case or any provocations for the ceasefire agreement. british firms are already counting the cost of border delays with europe less than 2 weeks into the post brags that reality ls block a man who works at a logistics firm in the u.k.

described the new obstacles we found the clarity of requirement for even boards an export she had been called probably mighty strange expression is going to place me in the right and we have a great deal right dates for all marriage and mossy on what decorations need to. have been those who regularly change and. traffic through the port of dover is it down 85 percent from the same period of 200-1000 according to some estimates firms will have to fill out an extra $400000000.00 customs declarations this year to sustain cross border freight drivers are reporting hours long delays resulting in huge losses and it is not just their cargo that is being held up a video from the netherlands shows one driver having his ham sandwich confiscated as it violated the e.u. rules of origin. yeah yeah ok let me take them all

i never did yeah right you know it's a good to me to be the greatest know everything will be. ellis black again says that there has been a lack of information from the government on how to comply with the new customs rules village school issues that with all its minute i am going to quote some clarity from the group mint and what we can pass on to our. end of the. shoot so we want to go. in china in the eve believed that it would work alternately as it were that way. and i don't know. what i would. and that does a free this i'll be back with more news in about 31 half minutes there were this is art international.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle

last week it was an assault on the nation's capital what does this tell us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and dissent importantly does the idea of a loyal opposition still exist. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he's an author and you too here at the gavel and here in moscow we have dmitri by which he is a political analyst and editor and you know it's me internet media project right gentlemen cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it when i was going to georgia in budapest. the events of the last few days are it is dizzying just say at the least here we have the ends today in.